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  • posted a message on living death and prince of thralls
    Yes. Prince of Thralls goes into the graveyard simultaneously with the opponent's creatures. Thus, it'll trigger using last known information.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
  • posted a message on You may lose the game
    Alternately, he could merely concede the game.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
  • posted a message on wings of velis vel
    Changing the power and toughness of a creature does not remove damage from that creature.

    Player A has a Mogg Flunkies.
    Player B plays Shock, targetting the Mogg Flunkies.

    Shock resolves. The Mogg Flunkies is now a 3/3 with 2 damage on it.

    Player B plays Shock, targetting the Mogg Flunkies.
    Player A responds with Wings of Velis Vel.

    Wings resolves. The Mogg Flunkies is now a 4/4 with 2 damage on it. (The old damage does not disappear.)

    Shock resolves. The Mogg Flunkies is now a 4/4 with 4 damage on it.

    State based effects destroy the Mogg Flunkies.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
  • posted a message on Cost Reducer Question
    CJ meant:

    If a player taps a Forest and a Mountain for TSH then realizes his Cloud Key would make the TSH cost only R he cannot untap the Forest. Furthermore, if he does not use that G left in his mana pool by the end of the phase he will suffer the dreaded Mana Burn.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
  • posted a message on What no "HEALING PLANESWALKERS"?
    It's not life; it's loyalty.

    Liliana doesn't care how many Healing Salves you throw at her; she's pissed you didn't use them to prevent the stupid Fireball.

    Also, she enjoys making people discard but finds it very tiring to raise the dead.
    Posted in: New Card Discussion
  • posted a message on Warp World with Take Possession
    No. You choose the targets when the triggers go on the stack. The triggers don't go on the stack until WW is done resolving.

    You cast Warp World.

    During WW's resolution this happens:
    Stuff gets shuffled into libraries.
    You reveal X cards. Your opponent reveals Y cards.
    All the artifact, creature and land cards happily enter the In Play zone simultaneously.

    Any comes into play triggers on them are told to go wait by the side until WW is done.

    Then all the enchantments are put into play. When being put into play auras, like Take Possession may be attached to legal permanents. (Note: this is not a targetted effect)

    Any comes into play triggers on the enchantments are told to go wait by the side until WW is done.

    WW is put into the graveyard.

    The active player now puts all his triggers on the (now empty, probably) stack in whatever order he chooses. Part of putting a trigger onto the stack is choosing targets.

    The non-active player does the same.

    The world continues revolving.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
  • posted a message on Molten Disaster and Troll Regen
    If Molten Disaster is on the stack and the Troll Ascetic does not already have a regeneration shield you cannot use his ability to create one before he would die (assuming Molten Disaster would be dealing enough damage to kill the troll.)
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
  • posted a message on "Infinite" Meddling Mages
    Well, doesn't collector's number plus set uniquely identify a card? So you would just have to remember set sizes and where they start being lands in each set, no? (Yes, this was a loaded way of asking what "uniquely identify" is supposed to mean.)
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
  • posted a message on T2 Question - Darien and damage.
    Quote from Pixel Panda
    Just for your reference later too, you dont get the tokens from mana burn
    because mana burn is loss of life, not damage.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
  • posted a message on [LOR] Planeswalker confirmed as a permanent
    Wild Speculation: Maybe MaRo wants to bring back subgames and wants to use Planeswalkers to do it...
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on [LOR] Planeswalker confirmed as a permanent
    Quote from Ain Soph Aur
    Dismissing a player from play could be flavored on to a Orim's Chant or Time Stop effect, I guess.
    That's more shutting them out for a short time than dismissing them. I think dismissing them would be saying something like, "You're not my friend anymore. Get out of my house."
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on [LOR] Six possibly real cards
    Quote from Madding
    So black loses Zombify in 10th, and Green gets an 'any graveyard' Zombify plus a late-game body? It just seems off to me, but we'll see.
    It makes sense if Wizards wants to change things so that Black puts stuff into the graveyard and Green takes them back out. Plus there was a green-black hybrid Zombify not too far back, which I think adds to the plausibility of the feature-shift.
    Posted in: Rumor Mill Archive
  • posted a message on Leyline of the Void+Gaea's Blessing
    Just a nitpickier nitpick: Things happen in the order they appear on a card, but state based effects aren't checked and triggers don't fire until after resolution.

    This would matter if a card had the text: "Sacrifice all creatures you control. Put all creature cards from your graveyard into play."
    That wouldn't swap your living and dead creatures, they'd all end up in play. (I believe, though I'm not certain, that your living creatures would trigger leaves and comes into play triggers as well.)
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
  • posted a message on Quagnoth Questions
    Quote from xycsoscyx
    Out of curiosity, do any rules gurus out there know why this is so? Why the ability fizzles since it's not in the same zone that triggered it?

    I believe it's because cards become different objects when they change zones.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
  • posted a message on Faceless Butcher
    Quote from Skajetolaf
    I read/heard somewhere that abilities from creatures check if the creature it came from is in play on resolving and it doesn't resolve when the creature leaves play, is this bullox or does this have some degree of truth?


    Some cards, like Parallax Wave, have been specifically errata'd to act in this manner.
    Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives
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